People, Jan. 17, 1972

A 1952 Italian law stipulates that the widow of a Prime Minister gets a
50% higher pension than the widow of an ordinary Minister. So one
81-year-old woman is suing the government for a raise in her pension
from $258.40 to $387.60 a month. After all, Husband Benito Mussolini
was Italy's Fascist Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943 (he was eventually
shot by anti-Fascist partisans and then hung by his heels alongside his
mistress). When Italian newspapers questioned whether the dictator's
widow really deserved more moneyplus the return of three Mussolini
farms that...